LFS minimising

Doorman · November 13, 2009, 12:45:12 PM

Someone last night suffered a minimising of LFS, I believe it was Lameduck
Does THIS throw any light on the problem? :g:

Lameduck · November 13, 2009, 01:13:36 PM

Quote from: Doorman;296265Someone last night suffered a minimising of LFS, I believe it was Lameduck :g:

Guilty m'lud, but I aint got AVG. Have checked all shut-down and screen-saver settings (not that I use them) but aint found a valid reason yet.
Bit hair raising as it happened about half a second before hitting turn one. Hope it dont happen again.

vobler · November 13, 2009, 01:44:16 PM

Quote from: Lameduck;296269Bit hair raising as it happened about half a second before hitting turn one. Hope it dont happen again.

Aha! It was on the straight just when you raised your pint sized wine glass wasn't it? :roflmao: No wonder you didn't see anything.

obsolum · November 13, 2009, 05:51:07 PM

Hmm, funnily enough rFactor minimized on my earlier today on account of AVG popping up a window asking me to upgrade to 9.0 :sideways:

I sure hope that won't be happening in tonight's league races. Maybe I should try disabling AVG alltogether just to be on the safe side :g:

Lameduck · November 13, 2009, 06:24:02 PM

Quote from: vobler;296273Aha! It was on the straight just when you raised your pint sized wine glass wasn't it? :roflmao: No wonder you didn't see anything.

How uncouth do you think I am? :ranting2: Pint sized indeed.
Its only half pint.

Oh, and it wasn't a glass.:g: Glass had been emptied much earlier.

Its a mug.

OK, I'm uncouth. :sad:

obsolum · November 13, 2009, 07:21:49 PM

In the hopes that if I upgraded to AVG 9.0 the pop ups would stop, I decided to upgrade. But now rFactor (and I assume any other game that would be running) minimizes every so often for no apparent reason. Seeing as several people have reported this problem after installing AVG 9.0 I am uninstalling it as we speak :angry:

lovretta · November 13, 2009, 08:31:05 PM

I also had this problem before and was unable to link it anything - for which i blame long intervals between "minimizations". But, i also did have lfs switching to window mode - resizing from full screen to window right upon startup. It still does the latter, but haven't played it for long time now so i forgot about these issues.

The Moose · November 13, 2009, 08:56:55 PM

Quote from: obsolum;296285I sure hope that won't be happening in tonight's league races. Maybe I should try disabling AVG alltogether just to be on the safe side :g:

Why on earth anyone feels the need to have any anti virus running while gaming is beyond me. :g:

To be honest, why any half experienced sensible internet user feels the need to run anti virus programs at all is questionable.

I have Avast installed but only fire it up every couple of months when i remember to have a scan, and I've still not manged to get a virus in years. In fact i can only recall getting one virus in all my years of internet use, and i completely deserved to catch it, installing something i knew was pretty dodgy.

No offense meant to anyone who's had viruses, but to catch one you have to be pretty silly.

obsolum · November 13, 2009, 09:58:06 PM

I agree, I used to not have an antivirus programme on my computer for years without problems. But a few years ago I decided to install a free one and it's been working fine ever since. You wouldn't know it was on the computer; never nagged, never caused crashes, nothing. It just did its job in the background. That's the way it should be.

But yeah, I'm wide open to viral attacks again now

I'll see if I get any :sideways: